Online headline: "Governor Snubs Obama's Dinner Invite" -- I knew it! It was Governor Brewer of Arizona. May be heard it was going to be an all-you-can-eat Mexican food bar, and she felt that potUS O'Blather should first 'bar Mexicans' from crossing the Arizona border..
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potUS O'Blather is now claiming we can supply all our gasoline needs by converting algae to gas. Guess he has a close first hand view of the bottom of the barrel to find this pond scum; or could it be potUS O'Blather considers this another 'green energy' scum...uh, scam.
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potUS O'Blather.... as long as you're apologizing about Qurans loaded with terrorist information, he better damn well apologize to the families of the American's who were executed by Afghani military personnel.... FAST! We're waiting!
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49.5% of Americans do not pay federal income taxes. potUS O'Blather, what, in your opinion, is their 'fair share'?
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Remember when Senator , now VP, Joe Biden ranted that is was 'patriotic' to pay taxes? Guess VP Biden and potUS O'Blather considers the DIM&DUMBERats who elected them unpatriotic. You know, they're right...on that aspect.
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Following up on that Secretary of Treasury, Tim Geithner says it is a 'privilege' of being an American to pay taxes. Is he trying to get DIM&DUMVERats to chip in some taxes, or is he about to chastise the 'privileged' to feel guilty about not voting for DIM&DUMBERats?
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Heard that Turbo Tax ad again yesterday...you know, the one that claims Turbo Tax is guaranteed accurate? Guess that shoots the legs out from Geithner's claim that Turbo Tax made a mistake when he was computing his taxes in the past.
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If Mayor Obamalinson wants to find 'new dollars', a simple way would be to uproot all those useless walk/don't walk 'silent policemen' put up at nearly every stoplight intersection in Columbus. She won't get all the money wasted back, but somewhere, some town might give her 50-cents on the dollar, and 100's of thousands of dollar annually would be saved from installing new ones and maintaing old ones.
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Speaking of those idiot 'silent policemen' thingies, where wil they be stationed at the non-vehicular-stop Weracoba Roundabout so children can walk from school to the playground?
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L-E headline/story: "Muscogee County School Board to study student transportation * “We need to know just what transportation costs are. We need the expenses broken down for us,” board member Pat Hugley Green said. “We need to know just what we are paying for.” -- We got trouble. Trouble with a capital "T", right here in River City. Board member Hugley Green (still think that sounds like the name of a wall cover paint from the 1950's) actually said, " “We need to know just what we are paying for.” Can't you just see her in Nancy Pelosi's shoes saying we have to pass this bill so we can see what we are voting for?
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Have you noticed all the 'lowboy' stealth light bars showing up on our law enforcement vehicles? I use to feel comforted at being able to spot a police vehicle at a distance because of the 'bubble' or 'highboy' light bars; it gave a sense of relief knowing others seeing it also would be better drivers. Now, our police cars might better change the motto of "to serve and protect" to "stealth and collect (fines)".
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Minimum wage is not in effect to determine a person's value as a worker. It is a bottom level of pay for entry level jobs, and seldom does a worker stay at such level once a worker has proven his/herself dependable. A person's level of pay is pretty much determined by what ever effort such person puts into a job opportunity. I won't say 100% of employers feel great pleasure in pulling an employee aside, and tell him/her that his/her work has been good so he/she has earned a wage raise, but I think it will apply to 99.9% of all small business employers.
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From City Manager's Agenda: "Authorization is requested to execute an agreement with Community Action for Improvement Inc. for an amount not to exceed $400,000 to administer the Weatherization Program. * This weatherization program will retrofit residential buildings that meet income eligibility requirements of 200 percent of poverty level by conducting energy audits and the needed modifications to the homes to increase Energy Efficiency. Community Action for Improvement Inc. will act as the city’s agent for this program to address the needs of each individual home. The program will provide assistance for 40 homes, with a total of $6,500 per home that meet income eligibility requirements." -- "This weatherization program will retrofit residential buildings that meet income eligibility requirements"? Does this mean properties that the owner lives in or are rental properties eligible, too? Also, since there is a limit of 40 such residences and a cap of $6,500.00 per residence, it means the maximum payout for 'improvements' is (40 X 6500) $260,000.00 meaning that there is another $140,000.00 being earmarked for the Community Action for Improvement Inc corporate owners. Who are the owners, and why is a program of assistance so heavy with corporate expenses not actually going to help those in need.
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Added note: Corporate search revealed that Community Action for Improvement INC is listed as a Lagrange, GA non-profit which further make me wonder why such a large portion of the City Manager's
set aside' is geared for corporate expenses versus actually improvements to properties.
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